Ciprì & Maresco is the name used by the pair of Italian screenwriters and directors Daniele Ciprì (born 17 August 1962) and Franco Maresco (born 5 May 1958).
The couple started collaborating in 1986, and they became popular with "Cinico TV", a Rai 3 series of 49 black-and-white shorts in which they depicted in a grotesque, comical and visionary style the ordinary life of Palermo suburbs.
[1] After making their feature film debut in 1995 with The Uncle from Brooklyn, in 1998 their provocative film Totò che visse due volte caused a stir, being temporarily banned by Italian censorship for blasphemy.
[1][2] Following a third film (the mockumentary The Return of Cagliostro), a documentary about the comedy duo Franco and Ciccio (How We Got the Italian Cinema Into Trouble: Franco & Ciccio's Real Story), and two TV-series for La7, the couple split to pursue solo projects.
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